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Home›Traditions›Charismatic

Charismatic Illustrations

The present-day operation of all spiritual gifts and the experiential dimension of the Holy Spirit.

Key question: “How is the Holy Spirit actively manifesting His power and gifts in the church today?”

23,210 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

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The Eleven Minutes You Cannot Control

When NASA's Perseverance rover entered the Martian atmosphere on February 18, 2021, mission control faced a reality they called "seven minutes of terror" — though...

Universalfaith

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The Thirty-Eight Trillion You Cannot Live Without

Dr. Jeffrey Gordon's research at Washington University in St. Louis reshaped how medicine understands the human body. His landmark studies on the gut microbiome revealed...

Universalcommunity

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The Warmth That Heals

In 1978, a hospital in Bogotá, Colombia faced a crisis. The Instituto Materno Infantil had too many premature babies and not enough incubators. Dr. Edgar...

Universallove

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The Cells That Beat Together

In the 1960s, researchers at the laboratory of developmental biologist Malcolm Steinberg at Princeton University observed something remarkable about heart muscle cells. When individual cardiomyocytes...

Universalcommunity

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The Bacteria in the Concrete

In 2006, microbiologist Henk Jonkers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands asked a strange question: What if concrete could heal itself? He developed...

Universalhealing

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The Cathedral God Is Still Building

In 1882, Antoni Gaudí began work on the Basilica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain. He knew from the start that he would never...

Universalpatience

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A Masterpiece Born from Ruin

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crushing...

Universalhope

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The Soup Inside the Chrysalis

When a caterpillar enters its chrysalis, something far stranger than growing wings takes place. Biologists have discovered that the caterpillar's body essentially dissolves. Digestive enzymes...

Universaltransformation

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Going Over Backwards

At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, a lanky twenty-one-year-old engineering student named Dick Fosbury did something no one had ever seen in elite competition. While...

Universalfaith

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The Patience of Treebeard

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Two Towers*, the hobbits Merry and Pippin encounter Treebeard, the ancient shepherd of Fangorn Forest. The Ents do nothing quickly. "Don't...

Universalpatience

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The Gavel That Could Not Silence Joy

On January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives voted on the Thirteenth Amendment for the second time. The measure had failed the previous...

John 8:36Universalfreedomjustice

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The Signal That Says "I'm Still Here

In computer networking, engineers solved a quiet but critical problem. When two machines are connected over the internet, how does one know the other hasn't...

Universallove

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The Web That Held Them All

In E.B. White's *Charlotte's Web*, a runt pig named Wilbur faces slaughter until Charlotte, a grey barn spider, begins weaving words into her web —...

Universalcommunity

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The Telescope That Waited Twenty-Five Years to See

In 1996, NASA began designing the James Webb Space Telescope. Engineers planned to launch by 2007. But the mirrors weren't precise enough. The sunshield kept...

Universalpatience

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The Open Door We've Stopped Seeing

In 1967, psychologist Martin Seligman made a troubling discovery at the University of Pennsylvania. In a series of experiments, dogs that had experienced repeated, inescapable...

Universalfreedom

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The Signal That Came Back

In 2007, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity faced what engineers feared would be its end. A massive dust storm engulfed the planet, choking off sunlight to...

Universalhope

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The Prompt That Changed Everything

In April 2021, Apple released iOS 14.5 with a small but revolutionary feature called App Tracking Transparency. For the first time, every app had to...

Universalfreedom

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The Proxy That Takes the Hit

Every major website you visit — from banking portals to hospital systems — is protected by something most people never see: a reverse proxy. Companies...

Universalsacrifice

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Hearts That Learn to Beat Together

Researchers in cardiac biology have documented something remarkable. When individual heart muscle cells are isolated and placed in a laboratory dish, each one pulses at...

Universallove

222 words

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The Trees That Kneel Underground

Suzanne Simard, a forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia, spent decades studying what happens beneath the forest floor. What she discovered reshaped our...

Universalhumility

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The Olympian Who Ran Toward Forgiveness

In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, nineteen-year-old Louis Zamperini of Torrance, California raced the 5,000 meters with such a blazing final lap that Adolf Hitler reportedly...

Universalforgiveness

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The Phonebook Nobody Reads

Every time you open a website, send an email, or stream a sermon online, something extraordinary happens in the space of a few milliseconds. A...

Universalhumility

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The Tree That Thrives on Thin Air

In California's White Mountains, at nearly ten thousand feet above sea level, stands a bristlecone pine named Methuselah. It is over 4,800 years old —...

Universalperseverance

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The Science of Being Held

In 1978, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia. The neonatal unit was overwhelmed, incubators were scarce, and premature...

Universallove

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